This course follows four threads involved in statistical consulting: professional practice and ethics, communication, technical tools, and case studies.

The material on this website is based on work by Gary Oehlert for Stat 8801 in Fall 2007, which in turn is based on a course developed by Douglas Hawkins.

Lectures

• Jan. 23 Introduction.
• Jan. 25 Mosteller.
• Jan. 28 Beamer.
• Feb. 4 Tables.
• Feb. 11 Graphs.
• Feb. 18 Ethics.
• Feb. 25, Research ethics
• Mar. 3 Statistical ethics
• Mar. 10 Some research skills.
• Mar. 14 Wolf depredation study.
• Mar. 24 Client expectations.
• Mar. 31 Asking good questions.
• Apr. 7 Nonverbal communication.
• April 14 Meetings.
• April 21 Write it Up.
• April 28 Making money.
• May 5 Work for yourself or work for the U.

Case Studies

• Due Feb. 1, Teams
• Due Feb. 8, Dressings
• Due Feb. 15, Cheating
• Due Feb. 22, Intervals
• Due Feb. 29, Ethics
• Due Mar. 7, Lead AND Also due Mar. 7, Superfund
• March 26, discussion topics
• April 9, wolves and sample survey

Discussion papers

• Due Feb. 6, Cannabis and cancer.
• Due Feb. 13, Research findings.
• Due Feb. 20, Meta analysis.
• Due Feb. 27, First in man studies. Discussion postponed to March 5
• Postponed to March 12, statistics and the law.

Methodology talks

• Methodology talks, April 4 to May 7.

Using Beamer and Sweave

• mystuff.tex, a simple beamer example.
• mystuff1.Rnw, a simple beamer example illustrating the use of Sweave.
• The beamer homepage.
• The beamer user guide. This is about 200 pages, so don't print it!
• Charlie Geyer's Sweave demo.
• The Sweave manual.
• Hints for running LaTeX and R under Linux and Windows.

Software

• www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/Power, a useful page for computing power and estimating sample size.

Data

• intervals data.